9th boss, guardian tank. After repeated attempts and huge repair bills, I realize i can't do this boss with my crappy gear & comp as a guardian tank (208/216 gear; level 29 comp). I have been following the mechanics of the fight but once the boss is at 25%, I get bombarded with droid attacks with non-stop yellow circles, I can just barely kill the 4 charging droids. I love it when the combat log says I got hit with 11k damage but still get insta-killed with full health. Anyway, I give up on this crap (anyone who says its easy is running around in top end gear, sorry). I miss the days when we worked towards raiding by doing dailies and killing world bosses. This abomination that Bioware has come up with is kind of sad considering what potential this game once had. At this point, I could care less about the remaining chapters. I finish the new ones in 30 minutes after waiting months for them to be released. If EC is an attempt to stall for time, the devs really failed. Most people who can actually do EC are saying its replay value is next to zero. So what are we suppose to do...go back to pissing around with 5 year old OPS/FP content while we wait for something new? That is really dumb considering this is a subscription based game. We pay to play, we should be getting better content than this. Anyway, I really don't care if the alliance defeats Arcaan anymore. If I have to put up with nonsense like EC until the end of November, I think I would rather go play The Sims. I am glad my sub is done in July =)

Bleh...got to the 8th boss and realized as an under geared tank with a lvl 18 comp, this boss is just lol. I guess EC is just for those who have endured the grind for the past 5 months.

This is an alert quest for companions. Lokin wants this massive list of materials that when turned in will get you to level 10 influence with him. From what I understand, once I get rank 10, he will send me into the Rakghoul caves during the next Rakgoul event (Nov 10). I am assuming the only way to get the materials is through crafting, but i don't do any crafting. Is there any other way of getting rank 10 with Lokin, or should i just abandon this one? I would start the crafting if I thought the outcome of this had any benefit whatsoever, but so far these companion alert quests seem kind of useless.

Thanks all, I figured something was up. I am still exploring the UI and stuff, haven't started playing with my skills yet.

Sorry if this has been asked already, but the first thing I noticed was heroic moment and all of its abilities are gone. Did they phase it out? I follow the forums and I read the patch notes, I don't recall this change. Thank you in advance for any insight.

"I will finish what you started" It seems to me that a certain someone said something very similar not too long ago.

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I doubt this change will affect me all that much. The only time I really go back to the low level planets on my high level characters is usually to help someone kill a quest boss. Usually the quest bosses are deep inside caves/buildings. In order to reach the person I want to help, I will now have to fight my way to them. What use to be a 5 minute job is now like a 20 minute job. That is about the only issue I may have with this. Seems like this would be a good time for a universal summoning system.

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Hello all, Just a quick question about achievement points. I have 15,970 points. i have just noticed any new achievements I get do not add to this total. Is there a cap on achievement points or is my achievements bugged? Thank you in advance for your reply.

I dunno, to me it seems like their marketing is doing quite well. This goofy thread has generated lots of noise about the upcoming expansion. Their push to the next expansion also has lots of people talking (negative or positive, it doesn't matter, so long as people are talking, that is what marketing is suppose to do). Since the expansion announcement, the forums have been more focused on either praise or crying about what is coming and less whining about the game mechanics as they are now. So what if they are not exactly being forthcoming about info regarding the next expansion. So long as they feed us with small spoonfuls of info, it will keep us talking. That is marketing genius. The next Star Wars film is following that formula to perfection. On a side note, from a marketing standpoint, Bioware should be running TV ads to target potential new mmo gamers. With the release of the new star wars film, there will be a lot more gaming interest in the Star Wars franchise if it is successful.

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Yep, lost Kaliyo and have to gear up another companion. I need another tank so Scorpio is what i have chosen to waste a bunch of resources on. My question is what weapon proficiency is she? She came equipped with a techstaff but most of the data mining websites say she can use electrostaffs and techblades. What is it? Scorpio can't use any of the electrostaffs or techblades that i bought her. What are the best modded weapons that Scorpio can use? I can stick with her green modded techstaff but there must be something better than that. I maxed out Kaliyo's affection so I'd like to start working on Scorpio next, but her weapon proficiency doesn't make sense to me.

I think the devs should really think about fixing the terrain bug that affects every corner of this game. Seriously, it is so easy to get stuck on just about anything. Sure, /stuck has been a pretty good band aid all these years but sometimes that doesn't even work. i was just moving towards my next quest objective on Balmorra when boom, I was stopped dead in my tracks...alas, stuck on a log. Every known attempt to get myself unstuck failed (/stuck just kept putting me in the same spot) until I used my rocket boots and hammered on my spacebar until the log let me go. That was after about 45mins of trying. Any hope this will ever get fixed?

Thanks for the response. My comps all have 168's so it's probably not worth dropping comms for them. I would like to transfer the comms to my alts though I wasn't aware we could do that. How does one go about sending comms to an alt?

Hey All, My Elite and Ultimate comms were converted to Basics. I now have 2000/1000 basic comms. I am guessing I am capped out on basic comms lol. My character has all 180 gear. Is there something I can buy at 55 to offload some of these comms or should I just save them until I hit 60? If that is my best option, that's kind of a bummer because I am going to lose alot of basic comms while leveling. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks

Cool. Thanks for the responses!

Hey All, Sorry if this has been asked before. There was mention that we would get a Revan Statue decoration if we subbed early. Usually we get a title and other goodies as well, not sure what those might be. Do those rewards come when the expansion goes live to everyone next week or did I miss something?

This is some really good advice. My ship was mastered in the first few months that GSF was released to subscribers (it is maxed out as far as having a build that fits my play style). I enjoyed playing my maxed out ship after that so I ended up with like 90k ship req and 16k fleet req before the full GSF expansion was released. I put GSF down for awhile to level some new characters and raid with my guild. As it stands, I can probably dump most of the surplus Req into components that I don't use. I probably won't spend any CC to convert Req unless I want to buy a new ship or what not. I will just grind some new req for my new ships and see what comes in 3.0

Thanks for the advice everyone. I kind of figured there wasn't much point collecting Req after the ship was mastered unless I dump CC’s into it. Oh well, guess I’ll start my new ship the hard way

What are you suppose to do with a mastered ship other than just play it for fun? Ship req is pretty useless when you can't spend it on anything anymore.

I have to tip my hat to BioWare. I started taking part in this 12x xp bonus when I created a new Jedi Sentinel last night. I have avoided all quests except the Story quests. I must say, this is the first time I have been able to enjoy the storyline without being clogged up with normal planetary quests. The xp gain may be a tad too fast but so far, I really like this event. I just hope I have time to do the other class story modes unhindered, there was a lot I missed by doing all planetary quests along with story quests on my first batch of 55's. Thank you Bioware for keeping things interesting!

What timezone are you?

Hi! I am hoping to join up with a Republic guild that does most of their guild related activities based on a central standard timezone schedule. I work during the day (and have a long commute) so my playtime is limited to around 7:30pm-1:00am CST. I have a funny work schedule, my weekend is actually Monday & Tuesday, so those days I am available anytime. I have a 55 commando(dps/healing), 55 Sage(healing), 55 Guardian(Tank/dps) and 55 Smuggler (gunslinger dps) along with some up and coming alts. My 55's are ready for DP/DF story mode, my commando is ready for at least DP/DF hard mode as he is mostly in 180's. My other toons are pretty well in 168's but still need a lot of work. I have recently started a crafting blitz with the onset of the new expansion. Many of my crafting skills on my alts and main toons have hit or are close to hitting 450. In the short term, this is my main focus as i am trying to get my new pad on Coruscant pimped out! I am a helpful player who helps guildies when they need help. I am not much of a pvp'er but will play when groups form up. I am well established in GSF. As far as PVE goes, i do lots of flashpoints, I know TFB/SNV very well and I want to gain more experience in DP/DF. I have done DF/DP but I am not yet familiar with it like i am with TFB/SNV. If you think I would be a good fit in your guild, i would be interested in hearing from you. Please respond here or contact me ingame via the following toons: Mulgan, Rapturas, Concelia, or Maelstromas. Thanks!

Love the idea of guild ships. It would be great if there was a calendar or some kind of event board! It would help a lot if we could post our guild events (like OPS nights) in-game. Can't wait to see what they do with this!